It's no longer news that live music – and not just classical – has been imperiled as much as most other human enterprises by COVID-19. Back in the day, productions closed, but now cancellations are of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opera house in the palace is as artificial as any of Louis’s propaganda. It was added shortly before the revolution, not for ...
The Gravity of its day, Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Phaeton pulled out the stops technologically to tell the story of a man's fall from space. Although it wasn't fully staged at its 1683 premiere, ...
Like Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique are working their way through the operas of Lully. Rousset’s recording of Atys appeared recently (4/24); here, ...
Introduction / Paul Henry Lang -- The first opera in Paris : a study in the politics of art / Neal Zaslaw -- Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully : the stakes of a collaboration / Catherine Massip - ...
It was with Atys, staged and recorded in 1987 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark the tercentenary of the composer’s death, that the modern revival of Lully’s operas really got going.
The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. Nothing is quite true, its spectacle invented and reinvented for its age. Ironically, in our days of access and equality, it is probably far ...
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The wrenching beauty of Lully at the Palace of Versailles
The wrenching beauty of Jean-Baptiste Lully at the Palace of Versailles - IN FOCUS: Simon Mundy attends a weekend of Baroque opera from the Italian-French composer, including a revival of Chateau de V ...
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